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  1. Don DeLillo _ Underworld

    No one knows the day or the hour.
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  2. Don DeLillo _ Underworld

    A couple of sportsmen taking their ease.
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  3. Don DeLillo _ Underworld

    It is interesting to think of the great blaze of heaven that we winnow down to animal shapes and kitchen tools.
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  4. Don DeLillo _ Underworld

    ...I want to keep our intentions small and human despite the enormous work we've done and the huge work we have ahead of us and I'm sitting here with a propped foot and talking endlessly about my work when I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues.
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  5. Don DeLillo _ Underworld

    I still respond to that thing you feel in an office, wearing a crisp suit and sensing the linked grids lap around you. It is all about the enfolding drone of the computers and fax machines. It is about the cell phones slotted in the desk chargers, the voice mail and e-mail-a sense of order and command reinforced by the office itself and the bronze tower that encases the office and by all the contact points that shimmer in the air somewhere.
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  6. Don DeLillo _ Underworld

    Baseball's oh so simple. You tag a man, he's out. How different from being it. What spectral genius in the term, that curious part of childhood that sees through the rhymes and nonsense words, past the hidings and seekings and pretendings to something old and dank, some medieval awe, he thought, or earlier, even, that crawls beneath the midnight skin.
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  7. Don DeLillo _ Underworld

    Most of our longings go unfulfilled.
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  8. Don DeLillo _ Underworld

    Have you ever seen so many people," she whispered, "gathered in one place in order to be rich, powerful and disgusting together?
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  9. Don DeLillo _ Underworld

    You don't know the connection? You don't know that every privilege in your life and every thought in your mind depends on the ability of the two great powers to hang a threat over the planet?
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  10. Don DeLillo _ Underworld

    mouth cat's-cradled with filaments of gleaming cheese."
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  11. Don DeLillo _ Underworld

    è tipico dell'adolescente immaginare la fine del mondo come un accessorio del proprio contesto
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  12. Don DeLillo _ Underworld

    There is another kind of belief, a second force, insecure, untrusting, a faith that is spring-fed by the things we fear in the night.
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